The reason for the name change, the court document states, was: “No pleasant associations connected with the name Blythe as he never did know his father and he has always been known by his friends and in school records as William Jefferson Clinton.”

ADELE COFFELT DID not discover that the father of her son was also the father of Bill Clinton until a relative sent her a clipping from People magazine, during the presidential campaign, mentioning the name William Blythe.